Why I’m tempted to disassociate myself from the “9/11 Truth Movement”
Abel Ashes
6-12-2008
Prior to the 9/11 tragedy I had been researching the Oklahoma City and CIA involvement with drug smuggling. Of those two issues the one I felt more comfortable speaking openly about was the CIA/drugs issue, mainly due to the fact that I could speak out on the issue without anyone falsely assuming that I supported narcotics smuggling. You see, in Southern California in the 1990s it was almost impossible to get anyone left of David Duke to even consider the possibility that a wider conspiracy existed because all evidence that contradicted the “official story” was thought to be aimed at acquitting that mass murdering psycho Timothy McVeigh. As it was for McVeigh so it is for Al-Qaeda.
When the 9/11 attacks happened I immediately suspected Osama Bin Laden’s involvement and I immediately suspected that some individuals connected with the petro/narcotics/weapons world probably knew and wanted it to happen. Within the first week I was using my music performances as an excuse to get on the microphone and read from news articles that began coming out in the mainstream press documenting multiple warnings. I was protesting in the streets of San Diego with a sign linking terrorism with the CIA less than two weeks after the attacks.
I spent the entire first year after 9/11 learning how to give up on happiness, give up my dreams, starve myself even though it was the first time in my life I was making a livable wage all for the cause of getting everything out into the open so that I could at least know that I did everything I could to prevent a long and bloody World War 4. I gave 9/11 timelines out by the hundreds to Republicans attending an award ceremony for Dick Cheney. I covered San Francisco in 9/11 info graffiti for months. Then on 9/11/02 I met Cosmos, Carol Broullet, Scott Munson, and some folks from the Uhuru Movement offshoot All Peeps Coalition and we did some “Bush Did It” demos where the theme was “Whether it was incompetence, complicity, or conspiracy…Bush Did It!.” I was one of the cofounders of the Northern California 9/11 Truth Alliance. I helped promote the work of Mike Ruppert, John Judge, Nafeez Ahmed, and Don Paul. I met Jim Hoffman and encouraged him to challenge Mike Ruppert to take up the demolition issue and to start his own website.
I gave away free copies of Alex Jones 9/11 videos (mostly because he gave permission to do so) even though I might have preferred some more careful analysis. After giving one video to a friend at work I was tackled, handcuffed, and fired. I contacted Stanley Hilton, an attorney who was suing Bush over 9/11 allegedly on behalf of 400 9/11 victims’ family members (that turned out to be a lie). He agreed to sue my employer pro-bono and then asked me to join the 9/11 lawsuit which he said was being rewritten to include violations related to the use of 9/11 to promote the Iraq War. Basically any American taxpayer could join the new lawsuit under the Federal Taxpayer section related to recouping misappropriated funds related to the War in Iraq (this money would be taken from contractors and returned to the US Treasury). However, people such as myself were not included as plaintiffs in the RICO section dealing with 9/11. Unfortunately Mark Robinowitz (who is generally more accurate than your average 9/11 Truther, did not and does not understand that there were two lawsuits. Making matters worse Stanley began filing documents based on the nonsense theories included in films such as “In Plane Site” and Loose Change”. He then revealed that there were only 40 plaintiffs not 400 and claimed to have never said “400 plaintiffs”. He said “400” to the SF Examiner. He said “400” on the “Alex Jones Show” multiple times. He said “400” to me multiple times. He lied.
So far I had wasted 4 years on this issue, while all kinds of human rights abuses, environmental degradation, economic stupidity, and other problems continued to devastate our world I remained fixated on the events of 9/11 because I was convinced (still am) that government secrecy and acquiescence to organized crime are two of the most neglected root causes of much of the suffering that ordinary people are subjected to around the world. I began organizing here in Louisville and eventually got a small group together. Cosmos founded Truth Action and The 11th of Every Month campaign and I immediately saw the potential for this being the campaign that would break through. I’ve been a part of this from day one, but I don’t know if I can be anymore. At least not in the way I have been in the past.
Over the past 7 years I’ve studied a lot. I read nonfiction exclusively. I read “truther” books. I read “debunker” books. I read “mainstream” books. My opinions have changed frequently over the years as I fell for disinformation, then realized my mistake and corrected it. However, in all of that time two things have not changed. I remain convinced that Al-Qaeda was involved in 9/11 and that a small group of individuals inside my nation’s government were too. But if I had to name the best 9/11 investigators only a few “truthers” would make the list. Let me cut to the chase…I cannot live with myself if I remain associated with a movement that at times at least borders of being sympathetic Jihadist terrorists and at the very least frequently denies that any “terrorism” exists aside from “false flag terrorism”. My conscience, my intellect and my sense of self respect will not allow me to fly the banner of “9/11 Truth” as long as “9/11 Truth” remains in denial of the very real danger of radical Islamism and other violent fanatics on the far-right and far-left.
Until the “9/11 Truth Movement” realizes that our responsibility is to tell the truth not to defend everyone accused of terrorism (even the guilty ones) I cannot be a part of this anymore.
Unfortunately the Truth Movement has begun focusing exclusively on evidence (both real and imagined) linking 9/11 to The Bush Administration, the neo-cons, Israel, The CIA, “the globalists” (which “globalists?”), “The Illuminati” (which hasn’t existed since the 1700s), while ignoring evidence linking Al-Qaeda to 9/11. It reminds me of an incident in Reno, Nevada when I handed a girl a flier about 9/11 and she put her fingers in her ears and said, “la, la, la, la, la, la, la!” That’s similar to how most “Truthers” behave when any evidence implicating Al-Qaeda is brought up. It’s denial plain and simple.
I am still very interested in getting to the whole truth about 9/11 and I think that the best way is by writing a book. Fliers are not the best way to analyze such a complex issue and truth be told, most of the time documentary videos barely scratch the surface.
If I had one wish for the 9/11 truth Movement, the thing that would cure the social disease that has corrupted this once promising movement, it is simply this: read about Al-Qaeda, read the statements of Al-Qaeda, read the statements of ex-Al-Qaeda members, read the statements of Bin Laden’s family members and childhood friends. Read “The Terror Timeline” by Paul Thompson in it’s entirety, front to back. Read the longer timeline at http://cooperativeresearch.org and the astounding research of terrorism investigator J.M. Berger at http://intelwire.com . Read all three of Peter Lance’s books “1,000 Years For Revenge”, Cover-Up” and especially “Triple Cross”. Read “The Osama Bin Laden I Know” by Peter Bergen. Read “The Al-Qaeda Connection” by Paul L. Williams. Read “Masterminds of Terror” by Yosri Fouda and Nick Fielding. Read “Perfect Soldiers” by Terry McDermott. If you don’t have time for all that at least read “The Road To 9/11” by Peter Dale Scott.
As for the 11th of every month…I’ll be working on my book.
abelashes